Posers disgust me. Went to the HOA Christmas Party, a couple of years ago, mostly to keep an eye on the HPOA board members, whichis an entire other story.
Wife and I sit at a table of people we didn't know, sort of just to get to know some new people, and while engaged in a conversation with an old duffer, overheard a guy to my right, saying he was a Navy SEAL. That caught my ear, and I turned slowly to eyeball him. Almost the right age for my era, but something not quite right. My wife was already looking at him with one eyebrow arched.
I excused myself from my previous conversation, and turned my full attention to the "SEAL". He was regaling the lady on his right with tales of daring-do, and etc.
I sat quietly and waited. He goes on, and eventually does it again: "I can take anything, I'm a Navy SEAL!". The lady is quite impressed. My wife is near retching.
I then engage in some safer talk, having recognized the lady he is talking to, as someone I once met at a yard sale. We discussed that a bit, then the SEAL invites me and my wife to the next room, where dinner was being served, to sit at his table, and swap stories. I was wearing a bright red Tshirt with Santa on it, in full D-day kit, jumping out of a C-47 over Normandy, with a sack of toys. He didn't recognize it.
We went to dinner, and I asked in passing, when did you attend Jump School. He said "I went but I never jumped. I got pulled by a Navy LT, in the middle of the night, and sent to Coronado on an empty 737, where I went directly to a SEAL team in the Delta, where they needed a Diver."
I said, WAFM, here, theres about 3 things , at least that don't quite jibe here." I won't go into it, as I am sure anybody who at least went to jump school, would recognize several things wrong with his statement.
My wife and I got up and left the room, and I quickly got in touch with Chief Shipley, with full name and address. Of COURSE, this turd came back as never haivng been to SEAL training, nor BUDS! He wasn't even a Navy Diver, let a lone a SEAL, and he had already satisfied me that he had never been to jump school. (If he got pulled in week three, he had to have learned a PLF, and been on the Nutcracker, or dropped from the tower, at least once. He didn't know a thing about any of it).
I took Shipley's letter to Doc Cox, who IS a Navy SEAL, and hosts the huge SEAL (and other Spec Ops) Bike Rally in Bandera, gave it to him. Cox's response was, "We'll take care of this."
I have only seen this turd one other time since then. He promptly turned tail and left.
F's fake-ass phonies.